Debating the Sharing Economy
Is this sharing’s big breakthrough? Or business as usual?
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The New Grassroots Heroes: They Fight Pollution—and Police Brutality—And They’re Changing How Social Movements Happen
It’s remembered as the global march for climate justice, but how did that word “justice” get into the title of the huge rallies that took place in New York and other cities this September?
“Communities with Cooperatives, not Communities of Cooperatives”
The idea of Las Indias is that it is a community with cooperative businesses, not a community of cooperatives.
Playing the Long Game
The dominant reality we face is one of substantial ongoing political stalemate and decay, and this sets the terms of reference for those serious about long term, more fundamental change.
Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston’s Poorest Neighborhoods
From a community land trust that preserves land for growing, to kitchens and retailers who buy and sell locally grown food, to a new waste management co-op that will return compost to the land, a crop of new businesses and nonprofits are building an integrated food economy.
The Rise of Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives
While the growth of cooperatives in a wide variety of industries is promising, the bar for social transformation needs to be, and has been, raised.
Omega Institute Hosts First Major North American Conference of Commons Activists
In Rhinebeck, New York, the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) – part of the noted Omega Institute retreat center – unleashed a torrent of creative energy and political action by hosting the first major conference of commons activists in North America.
Ways to Create a Democratized Economy
Is there any path toward a more democratic, equal and ecologically sustainable society? What can one person do?
The Not-for-Profit World beyond Capitalism
Beyond capitalism lies the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Beyond capitalism lies the Not-for-Profit World.
Beating Climate Change by Retooling the Economy—The Story Begins in Navajo Country
While the burning of fossil fuels causes climate change, simply shutting down these industries leaves workers and their families behind, and often result in a familiar conflict over “jobs versus the environment.”
How a Worker Cooperative Factory is Helping bring Textile Manufacturing back to North Carolina
Opportunity Threads is a worker cooperative cut and sew factory in Morganton, North Carolina.
Fair Coop
Imagine an online cooperative that supports economic equality around the world and is free from state control. This is the vision for Fair.coop.